The American Culture of Sadism

With the advent of Trump, we live in an age of cruelty-child abuse, bullying, vicious ad hominem attacks, racism and misogyny construed to create maximum hurt, maximum shame. Nazis troll and shoot; the Klan sheets are out; the meanest forms of discourse are employed. Honor, concern for the humble and weak are gone; these now have targets on their backs. We have become the Roman circus, but instead of gladiators, small children are torn apart for the spectacle to satisfy the bloodlust of the Trump supporter, who must be defeated in strength, the only coin of the realm they understand.